Following last night’s large-scale Russian missile attack against energy and fuel infrastructure in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has now stated in a post on Truth Social, “I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you!!!”

Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations was asked earlier about the letter U.S. President Trump claimed he sent to Iranian Supreme-Leader Ali Khamenei, stating, “We have not received such a letter so far.”

According to Barak Ravid of Axios, a senior White House official has said that "Trump's rage has been intensifying" in the past few days as Russia continues to increase the tempo of its strike campaign on Ukrainian civilian and energy infrastructure. In a recent post on Truth Social, President Trump urged both parties to “get to the table right now”. This comes as U.S. and Ukrainian decision-makers are set to meet this upcoming week in Saudi Arabia.

However, it should be noted that we’ve seen such frustrations play out before in the peace process and it has yet to materialize into any actions that would be detrimental to the Russian war effort. As the administration continues to compound on actions that hobble the Ukrainian war effort, it remains to be seen how serious President Trump is about these sanctions.

According to a release from the Israeli Air Force (IAF), after observing a group of terrorists planting an explosive device in the ground in the northern Gaza Strip, aircraft of the IAF struck the group and eliminated them.

Footage has appeared online, appearing to show forces under the Syrian Interim Government dropping barrel bombs out the back of a Mi-8 helicopter, onto Assadist positions along the coast of Jableh in the Latakia Governorate, close to Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base. The use of barrel bombs was one of the heavy criticisms of the previous Assad Regime, due to their poor accuracy and likelihood to result in collateral damage.

As tensions with Russia continue to rise in Europe, discussions are now ongoing in both Finland and Poland, about their withdrawal from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention also known as the Ottawa Treaty, which banned the use of anti-personnel mines in war and was signed by most of Europe in 1997, but not China, Russia or the United States.

While addressing the Polish Parliament earlier today, Prime Minister Donald Tusk expressed support for withdrawing from both the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, as well as the Convention on Cluster Munitions

During an ongoing presser at the White House, U.S. President Donald J. Trump and White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz have compounded on the president’s past comments that he would like both sides, Ukraine and Russia, to come to the table. However, President Trump stopped short of admitting that the Russians are currently taking advantage of the reduction in U.S. direct military and intelligence assistance to Ukraine, saying “I’m not sure if they [Ukraine] really want to settle.” He did, however, admit that Russia is increasing the tempo of strikes to apply pressure to Ukraine.

During a now-concluded presser with White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has compounded on past statements saying that a deal with Iran on its burgeoning nuclear program would be ideal. However, the president alluded to other, more direct actions, saying, “That something is going to happen pretty soon. You’ll be talking about that pretty soon.” This comes soon after President Trump announced that he sent a letter to Iran's top decision-maker, the Ayatollah, urging for a peaceful reconciliation over their nuclear program.

According to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, he spoke with his U.S. counterpart, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, over the phone today. They spoke on the upcoming U.S.-Ukraine talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and bilateral cooperation. While no mention of the unsigned mineral deal was made, it’s likely that this and other topics touched on by the Trump administration in the past week were also the topic of conversation.

The Trump Administration has announced that it will rescind upwards of $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University in New York City, following well over a year now of antisemitic attacks and actions at the University, which the school’s administration and staff have refused to address in any meaningful way. Just in the past week, students and outside agitators who support Hamas have stormed several buildings at Columbia’s campus in New York, attempting to create a situation similar to what we saw in April of 2024 during the height of the Pro-Hamas/Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses across the United States, in which Pro-Hamas demonstrators broke into and occupied Hamilton Hall, leading to a massive raid by the NYPD resulting in over 100 arrests.

Verbal clashes reportedly erupted during yesterday’s meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, between one of U.S. President Trump’s senior advisors Elon Musk, and several department heads, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

According to accounts obtained by the New York Times, Elon Musk lambasted Marco Rubio during yesterday’s Presidential Cabinet meeting, claiming that he had fired nobody suggested by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), further angering Rubio who already had been privately furious for weeks at Musk, after DOGE effectively shutdown an entire agency, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which was supposed to be under his purview as head of the State Department. Rubio responded by saying that Musk was not being truthful, pointing out the 1,500 State Department officials who took the buyouts, did they not count? Sarcastically asking if he should bring them back only to make a show out of firing them again. Before then laying out his plans for the State Department. Though Musk is said to have been unimpressed, stating that Rubio was “good on TV” leading the argument between the two to continue as President Trump watched with folded arms. The argument is said to have continued for an uncomfortable amount of time, until it was stopped by Trump, who stated that Secretary Rubio was doing a “great job” and that he is very busy with a lot of things to deal with, including an agency to run.

Secretary Rubio however was not the only department head who had a heated-exchange with Musk that night, with Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy also going at it with Musk only moments before. Duffy and Musk went back and forth over the state of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) equipment for tracking airplanes and what kind of fix was needed. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, jumped in to support Musk. Duffy then accused Musk’s DOGE of attempting to fire air traffic controllers, “What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?” Leading Musk to claim that was a lie, which Duffy refuted; stating he had been told that from them directly. Musk then demanded names, to which Duffy stated there were no names because he had stopped them from being fired. Musk then insisted that people hired under diversity, equity and inclusion programs were working in air traffic control towers, causing Duffy to once again push back. The argument then once again ended following intervention from President Trump, who said to Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers, stating these air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses.”

Lebanese Media is reporting several Airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force near the Town of Al-Aaishiyah in Southern Lebanon.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) confirms that Airstrikes were carried out within the last few minutes against Sites in Southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah Weapons and Rocket Launchers were identified, stating that the Weapons pose a Threat to the State of Israel and its Citizens.

Maxar Technologies has now confirmed reporting from last night, that they have “temporarily suspended” Ukraine’s access to Satellite Imagery at the request of the U.S. Government.

The Telegraph reports that U.S. President Donald J. Trump is considering the redeployment of most if not all 35,000 active-duty U.S. troops currently stationed in Germany, to Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is one of Trump’s closest-allies in Europe and has maintained a decent relationship with Russia despite the invasion of Ukraine. Germany houses one of the United States’ largest and most important overseas military installations, Ramstein Air Base, which acts as a logistics hub for U.S. Air Force flights across Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

U.S. President Trump was asked by an NBC reporter earlier tonight in the Oval Office, about reports from the New York Times, NBC and several other media outlets about a verbal clash that occurred during yesterday’s meeting Presidential Cabinet Room, between Elon Musk, Marco Rubio and Sean Duffy.

To which Trump responded, “No clash. I was there. You're just a troublemaker.”

The United States Fire Administration (USFA), a division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has announced the cancellation of all in-person trainings both at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland and at other sites across the country. In an email sent to local, state and federal firefighting agencies, the USFA stated, “FEMA is currently in the process of evaluating agency programs and spending to ensure alignment with [Trump] Administration priorities. While this review is underway, we will be cancelling all in-person training offered by the National Fire Academy.”

One police officer was killed and another seriously injured after a 14-year old opened fire on them when they responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the city of Newark, New Jersey tonight. The 14-year old suspect was subsequently killed. Bystanders reportedly heard over 10 gunshots in the exchange. Both New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and the New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin have been made aware of the incident and have released statements on the slaying of the officer (above).